“perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover.” Cory Doctorow Turned His Word of the Year Into a Whole Book

“for every $1 spent on model development, firms should expect to have to spend $3 on change management, which means user training and performance monitoring.” // How it started “AI-enabling the entire customer service stack of a typical business could lead to a 60 to 80 percent price increase, McKinsey says.” How it’s going: “while quoting an HR executive at a Fortune 100 company griping: ‘All of these copilots are supposed to make work more efficient with fewer people, but my business leaders are also saying they can’t reduce head count yet.'”

🔗 McKinsey wonders how to sell AI with no measurable benefits

It’s a 3D print thing.

“I assume they kept the socks as evidence too.” Theft of Services via Sock

“Slopjects.” pointed out by bruces

All I really need to know about socio-political culture I learned from 80s high school movies.

🔗 Performing Gender, Left and Right

“Laws can be opinions on inevitabilities in the world of software engineering, or wry observations on unavoidable realities.” // A round-up of all those laws and bromides tech world people use.

🔗 Hacker Laws